Gurgaon: Woman from Nepal cries molestation, police vow swift justice

The accused called the victim over to his residence on the pretext of giving her a job

A complaint was lodged at the nearby women’s police station under Section 354 D (act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code. (HT PHOTO)

A 25-year-old woman from Nepal was allegedly molested by a house owner of Nirvana Country, an upscale residential society in the city, on Tuesday.

According to her complaint, the accused, Rajkumar of Tigra village, asked her over to his place on the pretext of giving him a job and touched her inappropriately.

The accused, said sources, is a friend of the victim’s husband. Even the victim was known to him. A complaint was lodged at the nearby women’s police station under Section 354 D (act intended to insult the modesty of a woman) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).

The victim’s husband had earlier requested the accused to find her a job.

“We have received a complaint and the investigation is on,” Manjusha, a sub-inspector at the women’s police station, said.

With the city already having courted infamy over the rise in cases of crime against women, the police has pledged to act swiftly in the case and bring the accused to book.

On May 24, a 25-year-old woman from Darjeeling claimed that she was molested by an unknown person at Sohna Chowk. The victim works as a nurse at a house located on Sohna Road.

Even as an FIR was filed in the case, the police failed to identify the accused. The area where the incident took place isn’t well lit and neither does it come under CCTV coverage, the police said.

On May 14, a 26-year-old woman from Sikkim was gang-raped by three men in a moving car after she was kidnapped near Sukhrali village in Gurgaon. The victim, who lives as a paying guest in Sector 17, told the police that she returned from New Delhi in a cab around 2am and was abducted and dragged into a car while she was walking back to her place.

On February 20, an assistant professor from Meghalaya teaching in a Delhi college was allegedly molested by an auto-rickshaw driver while travelling from Huda City Centre to her residence in Sector 51.